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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-05
POSTAL MATTERS.
Fast Mail Service Between the East and
Southwest.

Fast Mail Service Between the East and
Southwest.
WASHINGTON, March 4th.-The Postmas-
ter-General has made arrangements for
fast mail service between the East and
Southwest Heretofore the fast mail leav-
ing New York at $50 has arrived at St.
Louis by passenger train the second
morning. in time only to reach Kansas
City the second evening, and by
the new arrangement a special train
of postal cars on the Pennsylvania
line will reach St. Louis at 2:45 A. NJ,
and the mail will be transferred at once to
q special train of postal cars on the Mis-
sou-i Pacific, which will leave St. Louis at
and arrive at Kansas City at IL in the
morning 1t is expected the outgoing
morning train from Kansas City to Colo
RADIO, Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona, South
ern California, Southern Kansas, Arkansas,
Indian Territory, Texas and the Southwest
generally, and up the Missouri to Omaha,
will delay departure and take the mail on
the arrival of the fast train at Kansas City.
The velue of the change will be more
apparent, from noticing the saving Of time
effected in the delivery of the Eastern mail
at some of the prominent points. At
Sedalia, Mo-, and generally in South
western Missouri, the gain is about eight
hours, and at Kansas City it is eight hours
and half. Practically at these points
the gain is full business day, the
mail arriving in the morning. instead of in
the evening. The gain is also in
effect day at st. Joseph, Atchison,
Leavenworth, Lawrence, Topeka and other
towns of eastern and southeastern Kansas.
The arrangement also enables the trans
continental mail for Mexico and Southern
California to secure earlier connections, so
that substantially full days gain of twen-
ty-four hours is secured at Denver, Chey-
enne, Laramie, Ogden, FL Paso, City of Mex
leo, San Francisco, Southern California,
and the offices on these lines. The
new provision will begin with a train
leaving New York on Saturday night, the
18th of March, and the service will
be a daily one. In view of this
expedition to the southwest, and increased
desirability of this service to business men
al New York, the departure Of the mail
train has been delayed half an hour at New
York from 7.30 to o'clock in the evening
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-05

sNorR-It has been declared by the Supreme
Court of the United States, 20 be clear thai there
car, hy no common law OF The Union. The Fed
oral Government i composed Of twenty y-iour
sovereipn and independent States, each of which
NAV have its local usages and common law; but
there is no principle wh'ch peryades the Union
and has the auth Drity OF the law, that is not en-
Bodied in the Constitution or laws of the Union.
Tfe common law could be made part OF the
Eederal system only by legislative adoption. It
ia settled that the Federal Courts have no juris-
diction of common law ofienses, and that there
Is Nc common law of the Union. (Sedgewick
on Sta;. and Const Construction. ID Ed, page
In Walling VS. Michigan GIG U. g 446i Mr. Jus
t;ce BRADLEY, speaking for the Court. says I'VE
have also repeatedly held. that, so long as Con-
.Tress does not pass any law TO regulate commerce
among the several States. it thereby indicates
;fs will that such commerce shall be free and
Itntramm eled. - am not unmindful of the fact
that there is variety of opinion as n how far,
in The absence of legislation on the subject, the
cornmoTl law is part of, the national system Of
Ss--r In this opinion / have taken the view
1gI,ich seems to have the best support on author
~ Int Il Is sufficient for the purposes of this
s2.n1,,nent that the question is one of doubt for
i, }hat event the act in question would have a
nlace to fill. Even were Il conceded that the
common laws were part of the national system,
,siiI an A ct of Congress re-enacting any Of the
4e-Tns of that law would necessarily receive the
ssroe construction which, in the absence Of the
Act. would have been given to the common law.
&C. H.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-05

lam asked by the Southern Pacific Company
whether. under the provisions Of Section of
the Act, it would be lawful in any case for q
carrier TO charge more fora short than for long
haul in the same direction the shorter haul be-
ing included within the longer. The history of
the Act itself substantially answers this ques-
ton
A bill known as the .Cullom bill passed the
Senate; the House of Representatives, when
the bill came before it for action struck out all
after the enacting clause and inserted bill
pending before it called the Reagan BILL
Section of the Reagan bill " declared it to be
unlawful for the carrier to receive any greater
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al nIissing Sllfn.

New YORK, March 4th-The British ship
t. N. Hart sailed from this city May 10th
for Shanghai, since which time nothing
commanded by Captain Mccarthy, and had
a crew of twenty men She was of 1 AGO
tons, was valued at $4,000. and her cargo
OF Gil and coal was worth $4,000
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-05

RESOLVED ON CEBIBRAcY.-The servants
in certain house struck the other day and
left in body. A selfish wonder on the
part of the master that everything was not
as orderly under the management of his
wife as when she had three servants, kept
him in a state of mental turmoil and con-
stant crOssness. At the end of the week
the son of the house, boy of dozen
years announced gravely that he never in
tended to marry. It was at the breakfast
table, and breakfast was a quarter of an
hour late. / should think not" growled
his father, you'll have some comfort in
life if you don't That's not il, ;" said the
youthful disciple of progression, II am
afraid If should get married would scold
my wife when she didn't deserve it, SO |
guess I'll be an old bachelor, and then
can't. ~ Boston Record.
THE WoRLDs RAIS.-Could we but util-
ize all the water-power lifted from the
ocean by the sunbeams and waited by the
zephyrs over the land, what vast factories
might we run Z What magnified Niagaras
might we create In recent paper to the
ROYAL Society Of Edinburgh. John Murray
sought to give the worlds rainfall in fig
ures. The areas of country having an in
land drainage-eaual to II, ,4S6. $50 square
miles-receive 2,243 cubic miles of rain
YEARLY. The total areas draining directly
to the ocean equal A, oil 900 square miles,
of which 38. .S29, $50 square miles have more
than ten inches of annual rainfall, and dis
charge into the sea 1863 cubic miles of wa
ter Zach year. By this means rather more
than 5. 900, 900 900 tons of solids are carried
to the ocean annually.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-05
HOME AFFAIRS.
PAST MAIL BETWEEN THE EAST
AND SOUTHWEST.
Adjournment of Congress Strike OF
Brakemen-Camet to an Under
ing-Earthquake.
TREATY MAKING.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-uMos.l
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-05
A Growing strike.

PIrTsBuRG, March 4th. = The freight
brakemen on the Pittsburg Division of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad have Joined
those of the Mount Pleasant branch, de-
manding an increase of wages. The indi-
cations are that the strike will extend
throughout the entire system of the Ohio
river. An official states that the increase
will be refused
Slight Earthquake.
CHARLESTON Is. C.) March 4th.-A
slight shock of earthquake was felt here at
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25
PLEASANT RECOGNITION

The dogmatic notion entertained by some
overzealous religionists that professors
should not read secular newspapers on
Sunday is dissented from by a large ma
jority of people who recognize the press
rs an invaluable co-worker with the pulpit
in evangelizipg the world AS a moral
agent the office Of the well-conducted,
fearless newspaper, such as the EAGLE, is
not only not questioned by intelligent.
right thinking people. but 1t is recognized
and endorsed as the vehicle of general in
formation and also as the chief conservator
Of the peace and welfare of the community.
These facts are so patent that no argument
is needed to sustain them. Nevertheless
such recognition In public way, even in a
word Ike that expressed by Rev. Harper
to his congregation last Sunday morning,
that lit is good thing to take nip out of
the EAGLE on Sunday morning as well as
every other morning" is gratifying to the
editor who tolls for the betterment of his
fellow men,
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25
THE BIGGEST THING YET.
a Plant Involving Millions of Capital and
Thousands of Iaborers.

a large number of important manufac-
turing plants have within the past year
located at Wichita, and still greater mum
Der are negotiating for opportunities, for
aid, sites, etc. But the biggest thing yet is
a New England concern which through its
representative has announced that they are
contemplating coming to Wichita, having
several months since resolved on coming
west. 1t is one of those gigantic eastern
concerns in which are invested millions Of
dollars and which employs thousands of
hands, a concern whose people and inter
ests constitute within themselves city Of
no mean proportions. Wichita, their gen
eral solicitor says, meets all the require
me nts of location, surroundings, ETC., bet
ter than any other central western city, and
the company will within a very short time
open up negotiations with our Board of
Trade through committee of the directory
who will come to Wichita for that purpose.
1t never rains but that it poura.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25
SOUTHERN PLANTERS GRIEVANCE

1t is probable, in fact reasonably certain,
that congress at the coming session will be
asked to do something-in the way of an
appropriation for public money-for the
rice planters along the lower Savannah.
The argument will be that the dam con.
structed by the government at Cross Tides,
near the city of Savannah to improve navi
cation has raised the river very consider
ably for long distance; that this years
freshet would not have been so disastrous
if navigation had not been improved In
this way; and therefore that the govern
ment is bound in equity to compensate the
suffering planters for their losses
and assist them In rebuilding and
maintaining their freshet banks. The
Charleston News and Courier, which
thinks the planters have a real grievance
and valid claim. reminds all concerned
that when the government engineering
works In the Savannah river were begun
the attorney general of South Carolina
filed a bill Of equity in the United States
supreme court TO put stop to them.
Georgia kept quiet and the court dismissed
t he bill, basing its decision on the ground
that as the "obstru ions" complained of
were placed in the river by authority of
congress, and as congress had Jurisdiction
over the river as part Of the navigable
waters of the United States, 1t was not q
case for judicial interference.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25
WICHITA WITHOUT A RIVAL.

The following comprehensive article is
| clipped from the last issue of the Western
Chicago Trail, the official paper of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad
system:
This city-one of the most important In
Southwestern Kansas, on the. Chicago,
Kansas and Nebraska railway-within the
last few years has made giant strides in the
line of progress. From q population of
s, 600 four years ago, it has become city
of 80 900 inhabitants. When 1t is borne
In mind that Wichita lies 200 miles from
any rival point and on the Arkansas river
at the junction Of several of its tributaries,
with surrounding country agriculturally
fertile, with the opening of the Indian Terri
tory on the southwest, with a charming
climate, and with i've and wide awake
business men, this growth is not
to be wondered at For a new
city the stranger Is struck by the
number of solid business blocks,
its crowded thoroughfares, energy of its
citizens and general appearance of doing q
rushing business. The streets are wide
ard perfectly level the city being built on
a plain. Handsome dwellings surrounded
by gardens and shade trees along TIE prin-
cipal residence streets enhance much its ap,
pearanCe, and the drives in every direction
cannot be SURPASSED. Wichita has sll the
necessary attributes 10 make modem city
gas, electric lights, water, street car lines,
good schools and fine churches.
The banking interests are represented by
nine banks, whose combined capital
closely approximates two million dollars.
Real estate has increased enormously, and
by today will resch In the neighborhood OF
SIS, SOC, 900. The year 1887 will see still
more numerous and great Improvements in
the Magic City.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25
MARK WHAT WE SAY.
CherTyvsk Torch.

Cheryvsk Torch.
The Wichita boom hiss opened this fall
two months earlier than last fall. Prices
in real estate have doubled since last June.
Thousands of dollars have already been
made by sll who bought In June and sold
in September. New factories are being
secured and the fact is Wichita Is going TO
be the first city in the state of Kansas 10
hsve 100, 900 bsns fide population. Mark
what We say.
The same paper says further:
The editor of the Wichits EAGLE has a
patent on showing up his town. D R.
Anthony says: Interest IN the town is
aroused from the moment one picks up the
EAGLE until the last line is resd." We
regard Marsh Murdock as one Of the most
successful newspaper men In the entire
west He convinces his readers. If his
people could get the EAGLE into the hsnds
of 200 GOO constant readers the city would
have 100000 inhabitants inside OF ten
years.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

The Kentucky Democrat" does not ex-
slain how he expects to pass revenue re-
form bill while all of the Republicans and
the Randall protection wing of the
Democracy are against such measure.
Guess he jumped to the conclusion from
The announcement that was given out i'm
nediately after the Pennsylvania pow WOW
that the two factions of the party had
come to an understanding on the tariff
question. An agreement over disputed
question pending an election, and made
with the hope Of winning doubtful con
test, will not be regarded as binding when
the question is brought to an issue upon its
own merits before congress, as the Ken
mcky Democrat viii discover. The diverg
ence is irreconcllable
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

General Butler says every man has
right 10 bubble for his life" That may
be true enough, but 1t does not warrant
lawyers in quibbling over technicalities Of
the law 10 save The life Of criminal whom
justice and the safety ofthe con munity de
maj d shall be removed. Why should the
lives of the innocent be placed in jeopardy
to save the life of the guilty? That done
every time an effort is made to save vic
ions criminal
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

There was q great demand for the Sun
day morning edition of our esteemed con
temporary, the EAGLE, nearly fifteen
thousand extra copies being necessary TO
all orders. When 1t comes right down TO
publishipga readable paper, the EAGLE is
D Observation-Disclosures.
Words like these from so discriminating
= source as our good friend Holding are
appreciated. His own paper is more a
ssouiyer with three bolted thunder stored, -
than a single shaft when trained upon
wong doing In whatever direction; vet
when all is we'll their quick fight to the
nrget of Jest and pleasantly form CLINT
ing at once pleasing and captivating.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

To want free whisky and prohibition at
one and the same time involves an elasticity
of principle and conviction very trying to
mems conscience and judgment, so much
30. In fact, that the experiment of the
Democratic brethren anent the local issue
In this city snapped the cord that hitherto
bound them together, and the conscience
wing have been repudiated and sent adrift
BIZ the other representing the judgment.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

General Boulsnger has been making a
speech at gathering of French army off
GERS. The hour for disarmament has not
vet struck in Europe, he says. Even
Frances enemies know that she has not
been converted TO the peace at any price"
doctrin,, be says. One of the Rothohilds
told the London correspondent of the Man
chester Guardian the other day that Bou-
hanger hopes TO succeed NJ. Grevy In the
presidency and is likely enough TO obtain
his wish.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

The report of the secretary of the state
board of agriculture for September gives
Sedgwick county two million three hun
dred and ninety-five thousand bushels Of
corn, which We consid,r a low estimate
But three COUNTIES in the state are given q
greater yield
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25
KANSAS CITY'S BOOM

The state auditors report would indicate
that there hiss been no such rspid rA,e Of
Increase in real estate during the past four
Years as the booming papers OF inst city
would have the public believe In the
year 1884 the value Of property in the
City Of ksnsss WAS quoted st $23. l46, 610,
and 10 1885 and 1886 st s17, 45O. SIS, de
crease Of uesrly s., 0C0. COO
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

Sol Smith Russell is not only clever
Snowman but possesses inventive genius.
He coined the poetic phrase "bewitched, j"
which has supplanted the more vulgar
slang of mashed, TO the delight of the soci
ety younp folk.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

An exchange remarks that Kansas Is
getting some good advertisement out OF
her sorghum sugar experiments. Yes, and
30 she is out of her gas wells. and her rich
soil and her magnificent climate, and her
choice cattle, and her excellent citizenship,
and her fine schools. and her prohibition
policy, and her thousand of other things
that she has more Of and better quality
than other states.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

President Cleveland, in his western cleo
honeeripg expedition, will give Kansas
the go-by. This is all proper enough.
perhaps In view Of similar act on the
part of the state a little less than three
years ago. All right; it's Kansas turn
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

True courage Is native product of all
the states; no section has monopoly on
virtue, hence the encouragement of every
one In the effort to acquire the largest share
of coveted graces.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25
urned from an

t14 urned from an
expedition In the Territory, in relating his
experience with an anttlered buck that
had been suddenly brought to bay close to
him with an empty gun, says he never
before appreciated the awkwardness Of
being placed in dilemma with the horns
all on the other side
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

Mrs. Cleveland considers Philadelphia
9 lovely city. Philadelphians unanimously
consider her q charming woman. Frances
was all smiles and the Philas all courtesies
while she was there last week.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

4 premium of five ard ten cents respec-
lively for the scalps Of prairie dogs and
ground squirrels fixed by the last Montana
legislature came so near depicting the
treasury of the territory that that body had
to be convened in special session TO repeal
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

Judge A L. Redden, of the ElBorodo
district, resigns the nomination unani'
moasly rendered him by the Republican
convention of that district recently for the
reason, he says, that increasing private In
serest will prevent him discharging the
duties of the office as they should be.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25
the act.

There is mere anti poverty argument in
the statement that twenty-four savings
banks of New York have deposits amount
ing to S., 300, 600, and that the number of
depositoIs Is 6S7, COO, than in all the fine
theories George and his Tx can spin IL a
Iffa fimn
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

excellent academy, and intend soon to erect
a college.
The Catholic See Is located on the West
Side, not far from Garfield University
Here will be their college convent and
school buildings.
| Every denomination of Christians. In
GLIDING the Salvation army, Is here largely
represented. Prominent In the great
| Christian work are the Ladies' Benevolent
Home and the w. G.. T. L.
The total capital and surplus Of the
numerous banks Is s., j65 4j7
The sales Of real estate for the first seven
months Of 1886 amounted to the sum Of
So, 337,113.
Sales of real estate for the first three
months Of 1887 amounted 10 the enormous
sum of S24 sol ,457.
The rate Of taxation Is but 4 o mills
The properly valuation is g. ,449 039 So
Radiating from Wichita as a center are
the following named railroads:
The Atchison, Topeka IL Santa Fe, the
Missouri Pacific. the Chicago, Rock Island
81 Pacific, the st. Louis & San Francisco.
the Kansas Midland, the Wichita s. West
ern. the Wichita & Colorado. and the
Denver, Memphis & Atlantic Three other
main lines OF railroads are approaching the
city
The population Of Wichita in juno last
was 80 600. This remarkable city Is only
fourteen years old.
Among others / mat ~ Wichita was John
O'Flaheriy, Esq. He has been admitted 70
The practice Of Law both IN the states ~
Pennsylvania aud New York and Is now
preparing for admissi0n in Wichita He
went 10 that city last fall with 81 coo
which be invested In real estate, today his
property is worth s. 600
| forbear making any comment on these
figures they speak for themselvcsj except
10 say that for some years b come in my
there VIII b. such an irflux Of
population AID capital az Wichita a. has
never yet been witnessed anywhere In the
great west. / y EyASs
The wichita EAGLE announces that
while !. and other Republicans II tia; city
who are Il the same way of tb.Dkirg are
nov, az they have aiyses been, uuAlieTabsy
opposed 10 the metropolitan police law,
yet they will not on that account turn
Democrats. or act with the Democratic
party. This position Is 10 BE- commended
- entirely sensible. The course frequently
pursued 81 allowing sOne personal griev-
4nce or temporary disapprUyAl II party
action. or the acts II individuals within
he party, 70 influence one 20 The extent Il
causing him ~ fOrsske bis own party and
spouse party whose record and prin.
,iples he has al wsYs condemned. h. 70 say
he least, the sheerezt folly -Empsria
Republican.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25
From the Athens penn. CO zettAe.
WICHITA AND ITS PROSPECTS.

An Eastern Writer Finds No Place in
Country Attracting So Much
Attention.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

one breathes, confined my ramblings to
only few of the most prominent objects
NJ STEWART.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25

To the Editor OF the Athens Gazette:
In order to crowd In one ordinary letter
what l desire to put In this communication
| have TO content myself with compare
lively dry and statistical statement.
Wichita eagle., 1887-09-25
THE ROCK ISLAND
~ KANSAS.
NEW TOWN SITES
Along the Line OF the G. r.
q N. Railroad

Along the Line OF the OK.
q n. Railroad.
Peck, Furley, Gladys. Elbirz
Auine. Lincolnvflie, Lost Springs,
Ramona Tampa, Durham and
Walcsck, n the Counties OF Sum
ner, Seogwick, Butler and Marion
the Banner Counties OF Kansas
Splendid opportunity for Bust
ness men Ia every branch OF
trade. The neighborhoOd well
settled and prosperous, trade
ready a. hand, special induce
ments 70 first Corners.
For Information and detaiIs
apply 70 any agent or the
Golden Belt Town Co,
GENERAL OFFICE
PEABODY, KANSAS